Ah...good to know! Perhaps I'll go there some day, maybe I'll get my dad to take me...he's a meat eater and likes any opportunity to eat it (mum won't cook him meat, good for her!). There's a place here, handmade burger, which does vegan stuff, but, it's a proper sit down place because orders take a while! Do giant portions though.

I've never noticed a fish smell either, they are usually very airy. They have a nutritional info booklet which shows what is suitable. I usually order a custom made inari pocket without tomago (egg). Other good stuff includes fried aubergine, seaweed salad and deep fried tofu salad. For something hot they have a rice or a noodle dish made to order. You can also get cucumber sushi but I am not a huge fan. (For some reason the avocado sushi roll isn't suitable.)

The avocado one isn't suitable because its got some kind of mayonnaise in it. But I love yo sushi! I could OD on their seaweed salad. I managed to recreate it though!! It's just a case of getting wakame...I've never asked them to make certain sushi's without stuff in. So I might do next time... but I'd just be happy to sit there and snaffle all the seaweedy options...

I found vegan cake in Leicester yesterday, actual veeery tasty cake. There's a little place called cafe Mbriki which had a sign outside advertising vegan cakes. I had a banofee one and a double chocolate one, I neeeeed their icing recipe :O

Shame they dont really seem to have any vegan lunch options on the menu though I'll ask at some point. Was in town with my mum and actually could not find anything I could eat for lunch. Even salads and falafel wraps all have yoghurt these days!

The people who do the cakes for Cafe Mbriki are The Vegan Cakery, and they're very prompt with responses to queries. Whether they'll want to divulge their icing recipe I don't know.

For what it's worth, you were just round the corner from World Peace Cafe which have several vegan options! Or if your dad doesn't want to eat veggie there's always Wagamama or Pizza Express if you get tired of the Handmade Burger co. (Incidentally, I didn't know they did anything vegan, as I sent them an enquiry and they never bothered to respond, so that's good to know if I was ever invited for a birthday do or something like that.).

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I found vegan cake in Leicester yesterday, actual veeery tasty cake. There's a little place called cafe Mbriki which had a sign outside advertising vegan cakes. I had a banofee one and a double chocolate one, I neeeeed their icing recipe :O

Shame they dont really seem to have any vegan lunch options on the menu though I'll ask at some point. Was in town with my mum and actually could not find anything I could eat for lunch. Even salads and falafel wraps all have yoghurt these days!

The people who do the cakes for Cafe Mbriki are The Vegan Cakery, and they're very prompt with responses to queries. Whether they'll want to divulge their icing recipe I don't know.

For what it's worth, you were just round the corner from World Peace Cafe which have several vegan options! Or if your dad doesn't want to eat veggie there's always Wagamama or Pizza Express if you get tired of the Handmade Burger co. (Incidentally, I didn't know they did anything vegan, as I sent them an enquiry and they never bothered to respond, so that's good to know if I was ever invited for a birthday do or something like that.).

I've heard about the world peace cafe but never visited. I keep meaning to. I get shy going in smaller places though! Yeah handmade burger doesn't do vegan burgers...all say they contain some sort of egg...but I usually get a salad with chargrilled veg...and chips...and its pretty nice! :) It's strange they didn't reply to you - I've contacted them before (they sponsored a charity thing I organised) and they were pretty nice!

I don't know if this counts as new or just seasonal, but Sainsbury's has Choices Easter Eggs - some with chocolate coins and some with caramels! Oh, and the one with caramels is caramel-flavoured! They also have some (smaller) white chocolate eggs, and their standard Free From chocolate eggs. Pretty decent selection this year.

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I don't know if this counts as new or just seasonal, but Sainsbury's has Choices Easter Eggs - some with chocolate coins and some with caramels! Oh, and the one with caramels is caramel-flavoured! They also have some (smaller) white chocolate eggs, and their standard Free From chocolate eggs. Pretty decent selection this year.

It's been lurking for a while, but I've just got hold of some:Redwood's smoked salmon slices are pretty good. Not a perfect replacement, but salty and fishy and smokey enough that 75% of my tastebuds were satisfied.

I was in Morrissons today and looking for something sweet to lift up my mood in what had been a horrible day, and noticed that the oreo packets locked a bit different. Looking at the back of it, there was no whey in sight! I re-read it several times and bought a packet. Further investigation confirmed this, UK Oreos are now vegan! And they're delicious!

You might want to have a look at the back of the package to make sure you're not buying old ones though.

Confirmed! It's the cylindrical pack, though, not the new box of 2-packs. Their website still lists whey as an ingredient in all of them, but the cylindrical pack (original - I didn't check the chocolate ones because those are works of the devil) definitely does not contain whey. Woo!

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